Xavier Gilbert

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Xavier Gilbert

Professor Emeritus

PhD

Business Administration (DBA), Harvard Business School, USA

Xavier Gilbert is Professor Emeritus. He was Professor of Business Administration at IMD from 1971 to 2016.

He is a graduate of ESSEC (France) and has a Doctorate in Business Administration (DBA) from Harvard Business School.

Case Study

What is your strategy?

What you need to be able to talk about intelligently if you mention that you have a strategy: 1) your overall strategic direction; 2) your strategic targets; 3) your competitive formula; 4) your cu...

In 1999 Richard Branson's Virgin group is contemplating entering the mobile communications market. The market is highly attractive with high profitability, high growth rates and a large number of c...

Strategy

20 December 1999

Case Study

UK mobile communications market (A)

Despite being one of the first deregulated markets, the UK mobile communications market has lower penetration and slower growth rates than other European markets. The case analyzes the competitive ...

Strategy

1 December 1998

Case Study

Telstra (B): The broadband battle

The rivalry between telecommunications giant Telstra and the challenger Optus heats up as Optus makes a A$ 3 billion move into the pay TV industry. Telstra responds by committing A$ 4 billion for d...

Deregulation of the telecommunications industry is creating continual, and unpredictable, changes. Competition is increasing dramatically, while the technology and customer needs are highly uncerta...

Two strategic initiatives out of three fail. They are actually a huge challenge for more-of-the-same, better-and-better , companies. Indeed, their cross-organization scope violates all principles o...

Strategy Strategy Implementation

1 January 0001

Seven steps to getting results

Smarter Execution